Former Justice Department official Jennifer Daskal said both sides
are overstating their arguments. “The government is wrong to say
this is just about one case,” said Daskal, a law professor at
American University. “On the other hand, it is wrong to say that
if Apple loses this case, there’s absolutely no limits to what the
government can order a company to do” in cases involving encrypted
communications.

This is false equivalence. The government really is wrong about this case being about just this one particular phone. But nobody (and certainly not Apple) is using words like “absolutely no limits to what the government can order a company to do” to describe what will happen if the government wins and sets precedent. The results will be significant, and I think chilling — but not limitless. This is just a bullshit quote to make the story sound “balanced”.

One argument that companies and civil liberties groups are
expected to make is that if the government’s order is upheld,
then the FBI might be able to order a technology firm to create,
say, malicious software to send to a user’s device in the form of
a routine update. “That is the third rail for tech companies —
to be forced to deliver a software update that breaks the
security of the device,” said Alex Abdo, a staff attorney for the
American Civil Liberties Union, which is also filing a brief in
support of Apple.